Word: area
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...some extent losing their tempers and fighting with one another. The reason the Corporation do not want the exercises to take place around the old Tree is because the quadrangle between Harvard, Hollis and Stoughton and Holden Chapel is so small. It is said that if the seating area around the Tree had been under police regulation, we should have had to move some time ago, in order to accommodate the crowd. It really is horrid to think what might happen if the light skirts of one of the women caught fire, there would be no room for the crowd...
...Shaler and Hunnewell properties on Bow street, near Young's training tables, have been purchased by Mr. C. D. Wetmore of New York, the owner of Claverly Hall and Apley Court, and ground will soon be broken for a new students' dormitory there. The area of the property is about 17,000 square feet...
...street than was originally intended. The body of the building will be 105x60 ft., with projections on the ends which will increase the total length inside to 150 ft. This is done in order to give room for a throw from home plate to second base. The floor area will be about 3 1-2 times that of the Carey Building cage...
...will be placed, and the whole will receive the usual cinder covering. The practice fields will be rolled and graded somewhat, but not much work will be done until the necessity for it appears, since the only really damp portion of the field is, as we have seen, that area near the middle portion of the old gridiron which was usually too slippery for satisfactory work. The whole field will ultimately be surrounded with trees, and when the boulevard is constructed will become very attractive...
...astronomical work every photographic plate must be tested for sensitiveness. Mr. Ring, assistant at the Observatory, has found the shape which an aperture must have in order to give a shaded area on each plate that will vary in intensity in arithmetical ratio. By means of a narrow strip on each plate, varying from a very light shade to one of considerable darkness, the magnitude of the stars photographed may be measured with accuracy...